A continuing series spotlighting new films that expand the possibilities of the medium and provide a vision for its future.

An ongoing series presenting rare films from the ICA Archive, screening on original 35mm and 16mm prints.

A continuing series of in-depth retrospectives exploring the work of cinema's great artists, both past and present.

Johan Grimonprez’s film essay, anchored by the rhythm of American jazz, reveals disturbing truths about the decolonial struggle between global political powers.

Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s stunning sophomore feature – which follows ICA Distribution project A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021) – is a profound meditation on urban migration and dislocation.

The latest film from Hong Sangsoo reunites Kim Minhee and Kwon Haehyo in an autumnal tale of desire, self-expression and the inescapable nature of the past.

Awarded Best Film in the BFI London Film Festival’s Official Competition, Adam Elliot’s heartfelt animation about twins navigating loss, blends humour and darkness.

From Tokyo to the Lake District – a universal portrait of love, acceptance and family loss in which the true journey toward forgiveness and reconciliation will prove the hardest of all.

Mahdi Fleifel’s first fiction feature portrays Chatila, a Palestinian refugee in Athens, as he cares for his addicted cousin Reda while seeking an escape to Germany.

The endlessly blurred and tangled lines of reality and fiction, cinema and theatre, and art and life form the heart of Jacques Rivette’s cinema. Throughout his extensive body of work the French filmmaker continually eschews and reformulates the traditional patterns of narrative cinema and instead embraces mystery, conspiracy, and the inexplicable.

Walker Salles' return to fiction depicts the Paiva family's struggle for justice after Rubens Paiva's 1970 disappearance under Brazil’s military regime.

A documentary portrait of British photographer Martin Parr’s politically charged, humanist and humorous work.

Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky’s film follows two women through a series of drifting vignettes. Their quotidian moments blend and overlay reality with performance, describing an aching state, and a meditation on identity.

Legendary provocateur Bruce LaBruce reimagines Pasolini’s Teorema, with a refugee protagonist liberating the bourgeoisie from sexual repression, critiquing anti-immigration rhetoric and exploring sexual and spiritual transformations.

When the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will close, Shelley (Pamela Anderson) sets out to plan her next act. Reconciling the life she's built, she decides to repair the complicated relationship with her daughter. 

Set against the backdrop of the Nuremberg Trials, this 1976 documentary raises urgent questions about violence, war, and justice that are still relevant today. This special screening, introduced by international lawyer Professor Philippe Sands Hon FBA.

Shot in a dazzling mixture of 35mm and 16mm film stocks, Jacques Rivette's hypnotic and long unavailable study of tempestuous love is one of the filmmakers most radical works.

To coincide with the BFI's retrospective, the ICA presents a curated programme of work by Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman.

The act of wandering the streets of a city becomes a source of both joy and despair in this pair of coming-of-age tales from filmmaker Chantal Akerman.

A poetic exploration of domestic space, solitude, and daily rituals, these films capture the tension between repetition and rupture, where ordinary spaces become sites of both freedom and entrapment. 

James Baldwin left New York behind for Paris in November 1948. Filmmaker Yashaddai Owens paints an impressionistic portrait of these early days on rich 16mm black-and-white, capturing a transformative moment in the life of a young artist.

Raoul Peck's portrait of Ernest Cole, a South African photographer who was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to a world audience, resulting in his exile.

Wanda and Janek struggle to navigate their relationship, discovering not all is lost, in Maria Zbąska’s debut exploring love’s survival in a disposable world.

Aurora, a Portuguese migrant warehouse worker in Scotland, seeks connection amidst alienation.

Drawing inspiration from both the silent serials of Louis Feuillade and Balzac's mammoth La Comédie humaine, Jacques Rivette's freewheeling epic, often referred to as cinema's "holy grail", is an all-consuming odyssey through the remnants of post-68 Paris.

The dog is apparently man's best friend, but what about its relationship to women? The immaculately groomed purebreds and dry humour of Good Girl... Sit Down! might seem miles apart from the languor of Dog Lady and its pack of mutts, but in both films, dogs figure as an important part of a woman's search for beauty and freedom.

In these quiet explorations of alienation and desire, everyday moments become a stage for the search for connection, blurring the line between self-exposure and introspection.

An intense psychological drama featuring Amanda Seyfried as a troubled opera director facing current and past traumas as she works on a new staging of Salomé.

Jérémie returns to his hometown for his former boss's funeral. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbour, and a strange priest complicate his visit. This screening is followed by a Q&A with Alain Guiraudie.

The Austrian Cultural Forum London, in cooperation with the Austrian Film Institute, presents the third edition of watchAUT, a dedicated film festival featuring the best new and recent films to emerge from Austria that is both a timely snapshot and an intriguing reflection of the current status quo. 

Hemmed into the marital bond of an arranged partnership in Mumbai, new bride Uma acts out in surprising, misanthropic and hugely charming ways. Karan Kandhari’s debut film is a punk celebration of embracing one’s impulses.

In Veni Vidi Vici, the ultra-wealthy have reached the ultimate privilege: getting away with murder.

An intense psychological drama featuring Amanda Seyfried as a troubled opera director facing current and past traumas as she works on a new staging of Salomé.

What seems like a dream job for Sarah, a retired Austrian martial artist hired to train three teenage sisters in Jordan, quickly turns eerie.

Akerman’s journey into filmmaking began with her first Super 8 films for her admission to INSAS. This programme brings together these early films with Akerman's poetic city symphony.

Austrian experimental cinema has long been a hotbed of radical ideas and daring artistry, as this programme of shorts attests to.

An infamous Austrian cult movie from 1983, that dives into the life and mind of a serial killer recently released from prison, who quickly feels the compulsion to kill again.

Jacques Rivette's fragmentary rescrambling of the epic Out 1, is rather appropriately a ghostly companion to its progenitor and a singular work all its own. A film both haunted by its past and an arresting evolution of it.

When you hear “Piggy Bank,” you might picture a cute porcelain pig — until it’s time to smash it.

When 80-year-old Mehrunisa’s husband dies, she sets her sights on an overdue dream: a starring role in a Bollywood epic.

As a part of our retrospective of the work of Jacques Rivette, we are delighted to present Howard Hawk's classic technicolor musical, a key inspiration for Céline and Julie Go Boating, screening exclusively for ICA Members and their guests.

The second edition of Screen Cuba, a festival that celebrates Cuba’s pioneering homegrown cinema industry, presents films rarely screened in the UK and looks at the achievements and challenges of the Cuban people through the decolonising lenses of their filmmakers since the 1959 revolution.

A satire on life (and death) during the ‘Special Period’ in Cuba following the demise of the Soviet Union, in the form of an entertaining road movie by Tomás Alea, Cuba’s most celebrated director, just before his death.

Two stories unfold within the stillness of a hotel where walls echo with the past, and corridors and windows speak of encounters, lovers and lost time.

When artist Maggie breaks her femur, her husband Joel, a famous photographer, becomes her caregiver. The hard truths of life together provoke an attempt to find a shared peace while there's time.

For two years, filmmakers Ben Russell and Guillaume Cailleau followed a militant activist community of squatters, anarchists, farmers in France. Composed of forty-one long takes, the film quietly assembles an immersive portrait of the movement and those involved alongside their activism.

In rural Northern India, recently widowed Santosh reluctantly takes the place of her murdered police constable husband in this complex thriller.

In 1930s Podhale, mountaineer Jędrek Zawrat’s love and loyalty clash with family, history, and wartime politics, as brothers face the controversial Goralenvolk decision, shaping their fates and region’s future.

Jacques Rivette's joyously madcap tale of a librarian and a magician whose chance encounter leads them into a strange Henry James inspired melodrama, is an entrancing examination of the nature of filmmaking and watching.

A landmark of 1970s cinema, The Passenger follows a weary journalist who assumes the identity of a dead man, embarking on a journey across continents, borders, and ultimately his own identity. 

Memories of Underdevelopment is the most internationally renowned film in the history of Cuban cinema, exploring the thoughts of privileged would-be writer Sergio as he faces a new uncertain life after his wife and family flee to the US in the early 1960s.

DIG! XX is the 20th anniversary extended edition of the rock documentary DIG!, which adds new narration by The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Joel Gion and features never-before-seen footage, bringing this epic tale through to today.

A new discovery from the Iranian underground, screening in London for the first time. A man hires an assistant for a high-risk treasure hunt, drawing them both into the haunted heart of a country reckoning with its past and uncertain of its future.

Drawing inspiration from both the writing of Gérard de Nerval and classic film noirs, Jacques Rivette's tale of two warring Goddesses awakened on the shadowy rain swept streets of 1970s Paris, is both an astounding feat of generic interpolation and an enthralling exploration of fate and mortality.

A tense and human musical about a family that survived the end of the world, from the director of The Act of Killing. Followed by an in-person Q&A with Joshua Oppenheimer and George MacKay.

Jérémie returns to his hometown for his former boss's funeral. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbour, and a strange priest complicate his visit. 

A tense and human musical about a family that survived the end of the world, from the director of The Act of Killing.

An exploration of a world shaped by neurodiverse perspectives, capturing diverse subjects navigating environments both challenging and comforting. Characters, some concealing their autism, others thriving in their communities, share a common goal: finding a space free from societal norms.

A tribute to the revolutionary Cuban filmmaker Santiago Álvarez and his “urgent cinema” approach he developed, making hundreds of incredibly innovative newsreels and documentaries raising public consciousness from the early 1960s. Followed by three important early shorts by Alvarez.

Jean Cocteau's second interpretation of the Orpheus myth is a peerless work of visual poetry whose echoes reverberate through Rivette's oeuvre – from the labyrinthine streets of Paris to the marrying of the modern and the fantastical.

This Stephen Sayadian (aka Rinse Dream) double bill presents a unique and timely opportunity to both discover and appreciate the true auteur of Americana’s dark underbelly. Presented by the Armenian Film Society London (AFSL) and Daniel Bird.

As sexually deranged as it is stylistically unhinged, this psychedelic surrealist neo-noir reworking of the 1920 German expressionist classic features Laura Albert as Mrs Van Houten, a woman whose libido is dangerously out of control. There’s only one place for her: the Caligari Insane Asylum.

A dystopian sci-fi oddity from one of American cinema's true underground originals, Café Flesh is a post-apocalyptic “adults-only” reworking of Bob Fosse’ Cabaret.

Inspired by Cyril Tourneur's Jacobean drama The Revenger's Tragedy, the third part of Jacques Rivette's Scènes de la vie parallèle is a balletic tale of revenge centred upon Morag's (Geraldine Chaplin) quest to avenge the death of her brother at the hands of Giulia (Bernadette Lafont), the leader of a band of pirates.

An exploration of a world shaped by neurodiverse perspectives, capturing diverse subjects navigating environments both challenging and comforting. Characters, some concealing their autism, others thriving in their communities, share a common goal: finding a space free from societal norms.

David Cronenberg’s 1983 cult classic on a 35mm print from the ICA Archives.